In Canada its a man with a truck. It absolutely happens.

Just not in big cities. In big cities you are on your own.

Am from US, have lived this.

Of course it's usually a couple friends of yours

I've lived in different states and it's the same everywhere. IDK about cities. The only unusual thing in this story is that the guy OP was talking to orginally didn't show up. And that it's just a pizza and not also beer.

The other questions you have I assure you that all of it is perfectly normal - to the degree that I as an American iam sitting here wondering how you made it through life not knowing the answrs to those question (I don't actually mean that, I'm sure you have a good social life, I'm just trying to relate that it's like everyday stuff, as if you were asking "how are both their shoes tied" and "how did that guy know how much money to give at the checkout counter")

The pizza is obtained on the way, at the pizza place local to the destination. If you're moving a ton, the most tired person goes to get it. You try to plan ahead but you also gotta probably stop for beer and maybe gas.

There is no question of size. I honestly don't know anyone who orders anything other than a Large pie. It's a Large and if there's leftovers, there's leftovers. If you need 10 slices, you get another Large and have leftovers.

You can very quickly just say "pepperoni?" and if you don't get a "I don't eat meat" then that's what everyone's getting. Otherwise you just get a plain. SOmetimes someone springs for a Supreme or something. If it's a lot of people you get a mix, or you can do half/halp on one pie. It takes the time to determine this that the phone is ringing while you're placing the order.

i like this more as a script for a gay porn intro

truck owner here - can confirm

I help move about 1.3 couches per month

You phrased it beautifully

Thanks for typing this out, I appreciate the time. I don’t have a good social life, but what I have, stopping to pick up pizza is not part of.
But you’re description sounds like life and is totally reasonable. OP sounds like a feel good Netflix soap, but maybe it’s the style that rubs me the wrong way.

That twitter/x account is a racist propaganda account posting these AI texts (yes, its AI as to their own admission) to spread insane garbage on their twitter.

Reddit link warning but in case someone wants to see:
https://www.reddit.com/r/redditonwiki/comments/1vf0e51/comment/p1lqut3/?context=3&share_id=Ml8uig7TaGfLXBwT7IGdD

I think I hear you on the style. There's some intentional storytelling in there and likely some embellishment.

Whelp, never posting this guy again. Thanks for the heads up.

Old Grand Cherokees are like the best of all worlds. Truck, Jeep, car, all in one.

The account was created in 2023 and the description reads:

Samurai wandering America. SI-assisted.

Yes, even switched from AI to SI when Trump ordered it.

Also from this self-proclaimed "SI assisted" (yes, using Trump's Super Intelligence term) account:

Americans, you may think this election is about the cost of living.

But I want you to think harder about what's really at stake.

A dystopia where your daughter gets raped, and her father gets arrested for reporting it.

A world where your daughter is enslaved, beaten over and over, forced to cover herself in black cloth, and forbidden from going to school.

I want you to think seriously about whether that future could come to America.

You hate Trump.
You're pissed off because Musk is rich.
You didn't get richer under the Republicans.

For reasons that petty, you can't think beyond a three-foot radius or two years in either direction.

Have you even considered that your country could become a hellish Muslim kingdom?
That America could end up like Europe?

I want you to think about that when you vote.

Aren't your families and communities what really matter?

Why would you let your daughters be tortured just to prioritize Islam, gay couples buying children through surrogacy, or groups of women demanding acquittals for people who kill children?

Why are you so determined to put the rights of people you consider abnormal ahead of your own daughters?

Not the rights of minorities.
Not the rights of people facing discrimination.

The rights of people you consider abnormal.

Seriously. Please think again.

TL;DR: Yes Musk is rich, but you should still vote for republicans because voting for the slightly less intolerant, but still right-wing party means gay muslim women are gonna come buy and kill your children.

Xitter link here, luckily many people are now realizing that it's a propaganda slop account. Which for people still using that service is a pretty big deal

Yeah, the only reason I didn't vote for Republicans last time was that I didn't get rich

This is funny (in a sad kind of way) to me, because:

• It's already a dystopia where your daughter gets raped and if she reports it, she gets swatted
• The "hellish Muslim kingdom" he speaks about shares more values with republicans than democrats (hardcore muslims are extremely right-wing and in fact the main gripe islamic terrorists usually have is that the other muslims aren't right-wing enough)
• I've yet to see this hellish Muslim kingdom in Europe. The one (1) Syrian family in my town has yet to bomb anything curiously enough
• In what universe is voting for republicans going to be in the interests of "your own daughters" anyway? They're the ones curtailing women's rights (because, again - they're the ones who have so much in common with islamic extremists. Just right-wing extremists of two different religions, of course they have similar ideas).
• I thought minorities were also part of your communities. Also his character is a minority too. I suspect he himself is either American, Israeli or Russian.

But have you tried eating the horse's shit, sparrow?

I've always wanted a Comanche, a little bit more modern. A shame they did away with them, too big of a threat to the big three. Then again I would love a body on frame instead of the unibody.

There's that for giggle.

ai slop? But I remember reading this actually years ago?

For the 0.3 couch, do you chop it lengthwise or widthwise?

But pizza

I don't want to know of their politics and religion and all the other things I probably disaagree with, but I'd love to be able to give them a cup of sugar if they ran out, or help move a sofa, or all those little things we used to do a bit more for each other.

I think about this often and I agree with you... I genuinely like the idea but then, what do you do if you learn that that neighbour votes for someone who has openly stated that he wants to kill me and my family and people like us? I've never really found the answer to that...

Edit: not in a US political context, just in general

Thank you for your service

Well, that's why I don't actually make the effort to meet my neighbors. heh.

And I live in a metro that's decently blue, but we are mixed enough here that most people don't really talk politics much.

But hey… I lived 15 years in an area where literally every public television (like waiting rooms at mechanics or doctors) was Fox News. Here? It's HGTV or at one place the Weather Channel. So… I'll take it as an improvement. heh.

But really, I'd like to live someplace where fascism was still an idea that everyone agreed was fucked. :(

"Never mind" is two words. There is no such compound noun as "nevermind".

But really, I'd like to live someplace where fascism was still an idea that everyone agreed was fucked. :(

Don't we all... I get you and sympathize with the rest of your message as well...

we julienne it to fit around the wheel wells

but it could be a proper noun, Nevermind, such as in Janelle Monae's 2018 e-motion picture Dirty Computer!

If you knew it was slop why did you post it?

I mean, most posts on Twitter are LLM-generated. Especially blue checkmark ones.

TBH, I wouldn't post any. I block communities that put too many Tweet screenshots in my feed, as they're basically always ragebait posted by an engagement farming account.

...I didn't come to Lemmy for that shit.

Yeah, I've seen that fucker way too often on Lemmy already.

It's always just:

In Japan, people do bad thing.

In USA, people are polite, helpful, accommodating, and friendly.

It's literally just nationalism designed to stroke US-American's ego of how great their society is.

This is a symptom of $8k grandpa trucks now being $50k road tanks.

Yeah, if anything, it's a copy pasta, though not even sure it's that because I haven't seen it a lot.

It's edited

Yes, I have old european cars, I know this pain

Yeah repairs can be an experience.

That was the result afterwards. I was young and dumb and almost cut the fuel lines lol

Sadly the further down this rabbit hole you go, the less there will be of lemmy to actually see. All the kids do nowadays is share slop memes back and forth. The meme economy has gone bankrupt.

I mean, it’s always been bankrupt, but at least the memes were reposted from somewhere.

The part that isn’t okay is the source being a bad actor. A spammer. That is simply unacceptable, yet posters and upvoters don’t seem to care.

Yet look at all the clowns in the comments patting themeselvrs on the back for knowing that Carly what this bot is talking about.

It’s placating. Americans are so easy to subdue.

And that’s what I mean. These kids don’t care. They will stop at nothing to give you the illusion that they do, but behavior is a tell- words aren’t.

Just look at how everyone complains about YouTube, then check the numbers. It’s more popular than ever.

Or really, any of the flavor-of-the-week complaints.

Like… Remember when everyone was hating on Rockstar for union busting? These kids are climbing over one another to hand over their saliva-soaked money for GTAVI pre-orders. (Also something they constantly yell at others for)

And let’s add on the fuckton of Facebook accounts that still exist even though we get daily articles about how META despises the LGBTQ+.

There has never been a more disingenuous generation than the recent batches. They just consume shit ad nauseum- all while giving the illusion that they give a shit about any of it. And you can’t directly call them out because you’ll get torn apart by the fact that they need to keep the ruse going. So with clutched pearls and a new sense of victimhood, they definitely deny all of it while calling you a “boomer”.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

I didn't know it was slop when I posted it. I updated the title when I found out

Whoaaa Nellie.

I don’t believe in intergenerational finger pointing like that. It’s not productive.

Besides, older generations have no leg to stand on. I see everyone from millennials to boomers indulging in the exact same addictive algos, sharing and acting in misinformation. And they have no excuse because they grew up with the “old internet.” Hence it doesn’t matter; everyone, in aggregate, is doing this.

I just meant to highlight the information hygiene problem on Lemmy, specifically. It really bothers me, but it doesn’t seem to bother most users, old or young, which worries me.

We can agree to disagree.

Fair nuff